Thursday, March 27, 2008

A look back: Egyptian and Greek Clash


This screenshot is near the end of stage one, there are many differences here not yet explained. By now, the palm tree problem(see my sphinx post) has been fixed and as you can see only certain types of trees are shown now. The rocks in the top part of the shot are one of the few things to still be in the game. The cliff color was changed probably because into the current Egyptian one which is now a reddish color. Now onto buildings. The greek temple looks nothing like it does now. The entrance was located vertically and it's model was thinner with more columns. Both the texture and model can be found in Aom's files. In the back of the shot, you'll notice the archery range. It looks a lot like it does now except then it had a slightly different model and a completely different texture. The Egyptian buildings have stayed the same mostly till the end. Even the barracks still looks the same now. Same for the lion statues which have gone unchanged. For the temple though, the obelisk was eventually taken off and it's model was modified. Now onto the bulk of the shot: the units. On the greek side we see hoplites. They had the same models ever since but the texture is once again different. Their plumes are horizontal which is new since hoplites before had vertical plumes. The archers have different models here. The greek archers are sharing their model and have almost the same features except the chest area which is unique to the civilization. The last greek human unit, the hippikon is also mostly the same since then today. The only exceptions being the helmet changed and his cape shortened. Myth units are not as different either. The colossus doesn't have a sword, the minotaur is in it's final version, and the Pegasus isn't different either. Odysseus in the center doesn't have a hero glow, this was changed so heroes would be more noticeable. On the egyptian side, the archers are barely different from the greek ones as I've said before. The spearmen are using the same model as the ones now and their texture looks like the one now apart from their chest having different armor. I've already mentioned the camelry before, so there's no need to say the same things again. As with greek myth units, the egyptian ones are almost completely finished as well. Thought the anubite is finished, the scorpion men have remained unchanged since their first shots. Now, their legs have been changed and their stingers have been darkened to show player colors better. About the human units, another part of the original plan was that every civilization would have spearmen, swordsmen, and archers as human units. They would also have at least one or two cavalry units(Egyptians, the camelry and the Greeks, the hippikon.).

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